Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 in the year 1968.   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles   

Jun 06   On this day in history franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies   

Jun 06   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.   

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 in the year 1968.   

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.   

Jun 08   On this day in history gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport on this day in history.   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted on this day in history.   

Jun 08   In the year 1968 rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   On this day in history yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1968.   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Jun 15   John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral on this day in history.   

Jun 15   In the year 1968 samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88   

Jun 18   On this day in history supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing   

Jun 19   50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign in the year 1968.   

Jun 20   On this day in history jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds   

Jun 21   In the year 1968 ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91   

Jun 21   Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns on this day in history.   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

Jun 24   In the year 1968 deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion   

Jun 24   On this day in history joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title   

Jun 24   Resurrection City closed on this day in history.   

Jun 25   In the year 1968 tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43   

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US in the year 1968.   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers on this day in history.   

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jun 30   Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections on this day in history.   

Jun 30   In the year 1968 john Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73   

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died in the year 1968.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)